Theocentric Musings

  We have a culture that is brought up on vengeance, eye for an eye, kill em all, blow them to hell, where people fight over neighborhoods, states they live in, sports teams, favorite drinks, etc. Where people support going to war and occupying a country that was innocent, where people support another country building a wall around another group and trying to commit genocide, where people celebrate a sniper that killed people that were only defending their country from an occup ying force, a culture raised on exceptionalism, self centeredness, self absorption, and celebration of self, a culture that is unwilling to help the least, that cuts funding for programs that assist the poor, a culture that closes it's borders to needy immigrants fleeing danger, and you wonder why there is a problem with violence in this country? And by the way I was just talking about and describing American Christians™, I wasn't even talking about non Christians.

  The worst thing I have witnessed is when a person with a caring personality, a huge heart, with love that overflows, a hope of helping marginalized people, and an empathetic soul, gets involved in religious, fear mongering, versions of Christianity and sucked into the false end times narrative, rotten eschatology, and exclusionary beliefs of American Christendom™. I weep for them, together with Jesus. It hits me so hard because I was in those same shoes not long ago, and I am so thankful that Jesus woke me up one day telling me to drop absolutely everything I was taught, and what I thought as a Christian I was supposed to believe, and only study His Love. He set me free from that addiction and bondage to hate and exclusion through the experience of learning He is a God of Love, only Love. People try to slander me and spread the lie that I attack fundamentalists, let me set the record straight, once and for all! I don't attack them, I love them, I was them aft...

I was wrong, American Christians™ are involved in a war... It's a war they created themselves and are too hardhearted to give up. All while Jesus weeps.

  The reason we live in a "godless society" is because most American Christians™ don't seem to know the God Jesus showed the world. They mostly know an amalgamation of Egyptian and Greek false gods that love violence, kill their enemies, and rely on might not mercy to overcome.

All the people saying they would die for Jesus...   Carrying concealed weapons and against gun control so they can defend themselves against any threats, real or imagined.   Makes perfect sense.

Today many men and women will stand on stages and claim to be speaking for God.   Many of them will share messages that contradict each other. Many will share messages that go against the non violent, enemy loving teachings of Jesus. Many of them won't share a message of beating weapons into plow shares but a message of stocking up in even more weapons. Many won't share a message of reaching out t o our neighbors, but a message to fear our neighbors. Many will share a message not that we have overcame, but that we are under attack and must overcome others by force. Many will place you under laws and bondage that never applied to Gentiles.   Please, don't listen to your emotions, don't listen to political rhetoric, don't listen to fear, don't listen to lies, listen to your heart.   Don't be deceived, your heart will guide you to Love. Love doesn't do what many "men and women of God" will tell you God does. Please trust Love, not the many mess...

Followers of Christ that believe that Christians are in some kind of war...   Your theology is all messed up.   Followers of Christ are to be a welcome party to the Kingdom, not some kind of soldier, Rambo, warrior against everyone of other sexual orientation, religion, etc.   Look, don't get caught up in that end times, fear filled rhetoric, all their "sign of the times" posts are bogus.   Their blood moons was kaka, their harbinger was bovine excrement. Their picking of any negative event and claiming God is judging is bad use of scripture.   They use OT scriptures from a people that didn't see God (Jesus' own words not mine) and twist it to apply to people in a new covenant. That's ignorance at its finest.   You are too smart for that, your heart is too big for that, don't let them cage your heart. Listen to your heart, your heart tells you that they are teaching wrong things, devoid of Love, devoid of Jesus, trust yourself.   Don't let them take...